Ethereum Prepares Glamsterdam Upgrade to Align Gas Fees with Actual Resource Consumption
The Ethereum network is gearing up for an upgrade called Glamsterdam, which will recalibrate gas fees for state-related operations. Two proposals, EIP-8037 and EIP-8038, aim to align gas pricing with actual computation and storage resources consumed by transactions.
EIP-8037 seeks to lower the cost of creating new state by increasing and standardizing fees for creating new accounts, storage slots, and deployed bytecode. It measures these individually to ensure that even as the block gas limit rises, state growth remains sustainable.
EIP-8038 increases costs for accessing existing state, including SSTORE, SLOAD, cold account access, and actions like EXTCODESIZE or EXTCODECOPY. This is designed to reflect current performance metrics as the size of extended state grows.